Enabling Tap-to-click function in Manjaro via the command line.

Introduction

In case you have Manjaro installed and your touchpad does not have the Tap-to-click ability, then the following suits you if you would wish to enable it via the command line. Before that, lets have a moment to enjoy some food for thought..

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” — Lao Tzu

Enabling Tap-to-click function

The following is the syntax for enabling touchpad on the terminal

# xinput set-prop [device number] [option number] [setting]

To get the value of [device number], enter the following on the terminal:

Look into the output and find “Tapping enabled” Option. From the output above we have "libinput Tapping Enabled (278): 0." From that, we get the value of [option number] and value which are 278 and 0 respectively. The 0 is a binary value which means that it is disabled. Another way of checking whether the Tapping option is disabled or enabled, do the enter the following on your terminal:

# sudo libinput list-devices

You will get a long list of output and for the sake of the article, I have extracted the part related to the Touchpad

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